I really appreciate your helping with this. I'm still not sure what wasn't working with Ryura's code, but after copying and pasting it to a new document, it too works for writing the elements to the document. The hide() and slideDown() commands don't seem to be getting through, though.
Here is the sample page: http://karen.ziarek.com/test.html The test.php file returns a JSON array that looks like this: [{"a":"nate"},{"a":"john"},{"a":"toby"},{"a":"keith"}]. Any thoughts on getting the animation to work are greatly appreciated. Thanks! Nate
